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Public Comment Process
The public has the opportunity to comment on EPA's proposed addition (New Proposed NPL Sites) of six sites to the National Priorities List (NPL). EPA publishes notices in the Federal Register, listing which sites are being proposed to the NPL. The documents that form the basis for site listing are made available in dockets located at EPA Headquarters in Washington, DC and in the Regional offices for Regions with sites included in the proposed rule.
EPA considers all comments received during a 60-day comment period following the publication date in the Federal Register. During the comment period, comments are placed in the Headquarters docket and are available to the public on an "as received" basis. A complete set of comments will be available for viewing in the Regional docket approximately one week after the formal comment period closes. Comments that include complex or voluminous reports, or materials prepared for purposes other than HRS (Introduction to the HRS) scoring, should point out the specific information that EPA should consider and how it affects individual factor values. EPA will make final listing decisions after considering the relevant comments received during the comment period. These decisions are provided in a rule-specific support document (in PDF) that includes all sites that are being finalized to the NPL for which comments have been received.
The Headquarters Superfund docket contains:
- HRS scoresheets for each proposed site;
- a documentation record for each site describing the information used
to compute the HRS score;
- information for any site affected by particular statutory requirements
or EPA listing policies; and
- a list of documents referenced in the documentation record.
Each Regional docket contains all of the information in the Headquarters docket for sites in that Region, plus reference documents containing the data principally relied upon and cited by EPA in evaluating the HRS scores for sites in that Region. These reference documents are available only in the Regional dockets. Interested parties may view documents by appointment only or copies may be requested from the Headquarters or appropriate Regional docket.
The hours of operation for the Headquarters docket are from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST, Monday through Friday, excluding Federal holidays. Please contact individual Regional dockets for hours.
The visiting address for the Headquarters Superfund Docket is CERCLA Docket Office, Room 3340, EPA West Building, 1301 Constitution Avenue, Washington, DC 20004, 202/566-1744.The addresses for the Regional Superfund Docket offices are:
- Joan Berggren, Region 1 (CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, VT), U.S. EPA, Superfund
Records and Information Center, Mailcode HSC, One Congress Street, Suite 1100, Boston,
MA 02114-2023, 617/918-1417, berggren.joan@epa.gov
- Dennis Munhall, Region 2 (NJ, NY, PR, VI), U.S. EPA, 290 Broadway, New York, NY 10007-1866, 212/637-4343, munhall.dennis@epa.gov
- Dawn Shellenberger (ASRC), Region 3 (DE, DC, MD, PA, VA, WV), U.S.
EPA, Library, 1650 Arch Street, Mailcode 3PM52, Philadelphia, PA 19103,
215/814-5364, shellenberger.dawn@epa.gov
- Debbie Jourdan, Region 4 (AL, FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, SC, TN), U.S. EPA,
61 Forsyth Street, SW., 9th Floor, Atlanta, GA 30303, 404/562-8862, jourdan.debbie@epa.gov
- Janet Pfundheller, Region 5 (IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI), U.S. EPA, Records
Center, Superfund Division SRC-7J, Metcalfe Federal Building, 77 West
Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, IL 60604, 312/353-5821, pfundheller.janet@epa.gov
- Brenda Cook, Region 6 (AR, LA, NM, OK, TX), U.S. EPA, 1445 Ross Avenue,
Mailcode 6SF-RA, Dallas, TX 75202-2733, 214/665-7436, cook.brenda@epa.gov
- Michelle Quick, Region 7 (IA, KS, MO, NE), U.S. EPA, 901 North 5th
Street, Kansas City, KS 66101, 913/551-7335, quick.michelle@epa.gov
- Gwen Christiansen, Region 8 (CO, MT, ND, SD, UT, WY), U.S. EPA, 1595 Wynkoop Street, Mailcode 8EPR-B, Denver, CO 80202-1129, 303/312-6463, christiansen.gwen@epa.gov
- Dawn Richmond, Region 9 (AZ, CA, HI, NV, AS, GU), U.S. EPA, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105, 415/972-3097, richmond.dawn@epa.gov
- Ken Marcy, Region 10 (AK, ID, OR, WA), U.S. EPA, 1200 6th Avenue, Mail Stop ECL-115, Seattle, WA 98101, 206/553-2782, marcy.ken@epa.gov
Access EPA Dockets electronically by going to http://www.regulations.gov and following the online instructions for submitting comments. Once in the system, select "Search for: All Documents (Open and Closed for Comment)", then enter a Keyword or ID of "SFUND-2008", select the button that says "Any Word", and then click on the "Submit" button.